Job Description

Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth

Monthly Cost To Company (Market related)

Our client in the agricultural industry based in Port Elizabeth (Coega) is currently looking to employ a Lab Analyst. This will be a contract position.

Main purpose of the position:

• Carry out tours focused on food safety and hygiene.
• Ensure the quality standards of the different processed products (clear, cloudy and specialties): compliance of physicochemical and microbiological parameters with the specifications of each client of Final Products and Process, respecting the guidelines of security and environment.
• Carry out tours focused on food safety and hygiene.

Responsibilities:

• Calibrate and maintain laboratory equipment (Titrino, refractometers, Scales, etc), and keep the records of that.
• Prepare solutions for use in analyses, patterns, and others. Checks, maintains, and prepares drugs for use in the laboratory.
• Carry out control of the process of product line that is in the plant.
• Ensure compliance with internal work standards through training staff in line control letters, compliance with CIP processes, BPM verification and regulatory requirements.
• Report internal and external results to internal customers, updating follow-up sheets in the database for the different raw materials sources.
• Monitoring of product process and execution of blends in product line, supporting product processes (centrifuges, concentrators, etc.).
• Monitoring the microbiology of the product process, leading the microbiology analyzes required by the client.
• Ensure the representativeness and traceability of the samples collected for analysis.
• Batch release for plant filling.
• Follow and optimize the stock/ consumption of laboratory supplies.
• Maintain 5s of the sector during the shift, comply with schedule and cleaning procedures.
• Compliance with internal standards, GMP and GLP.
• Contribute to the achievement of established objectives (production volume, efficiencies, savings, etc.).
• Ensure the implementation, development, and compliance of the defined methodology.
• Ensure that activities within the plant are carried out under the Safety, Health and Hygiene, Environment and Quality standards.
• Ensure that the operation achieves the desired results.
• Drive the culture of continuous improvement throughout the plant.
• Raise awareness and prevent accidents.
• Ensure the physical and mental integrity of our employees. Reduce the environmental impact caused by our operation.
• Ensure compliance with the quality standards established by our customers.

Requirements:

• Higher education as chemical technician (University Technician is better).
• Microbiology courses.
• Experience in basic handling of laboratory instruments.
• Experience in Quality Control laboratories.
• Experience in Microbiology laboratories.

Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not receive a response within 2 weeks of applying.

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